But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.

WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.

(computing) the destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media

the act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct

(linguistics) a debased or nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, mishearing, etc.

something that is evil but is supposed to be good

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for corruption inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)